 | United States. Congress. House - Parliamentary practice - 1879 - 456 pages
...chair, and a chairman to preside in committee shall be appointed by the Speaker." — Rule 105, p. 128. "All committees shall be appointed by the Speaker,...unless otherwise specially directed by the House." — Rule 67, p. 118. [It is usual, however, for him to await the passage of an order, "that the Speaker... | |
 | Bernard Moses - United States - 1906 - 446 pages
...passed on the first of January, 1790, and readopted by every Congress since then. This rule is that "all committees shall be appointed by the speaker...unless otherwise specially directed by the House." In appointing th^se \ v committees the speaker decides who shall be the chairman of each; he also provides... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - Constitutional law - 1908 - 838 pages
...committees by ballot; but this worked so ill that in January, 1790, the following rule was passed:—"All committees shall be appointed by the Speaker unless otherwise specially directed by the House." This rule has been re-adr ited by each successive Congress since then. 18 Not only does h <, at the... | |
 | Malcolm Townsend - United States - 1910 - 478 pages
...Congress), the House appointed committees by ballot; it was discontinued in January, 1790, under a rule : " All committees shall be appointed by the Speaker unless otherwise specially directed by the House," which rule has since been adopted by each successive Congress. All measures are referred to the Standing... | |
 | Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives - Illinois - 1911 - 1710 pages
...Senate bill before a House committee, except that the motion may lie made by any member. COMMITTEES. 13. All committees shall be appointed by the Speaker unless otherwise specially directed by the House. The following standing committees shall be appointed by the Speaker, with leave to report by bill or... | |
 | WILLIAM J. JACKMAN - 1911 - 314 pages
...committees by ballot ; but this worked so ill that in January, 1790, the following rule was passed : — "All committees shall be appointed by the Speaker unless otherwise specially directed by the House." This rule has been re-adopted by each successive Congress since then. Not only does he, at the beginning... | |
 | De Alva Stanwood Alexander - 1916 - 464 pages
...ballot, but this plan having proved unsatisfactory, the House, in January, 1790, ^adopted a rule that "all committees shall be appointed by the Speaker unless otherwise specially directed by the House." l Thus the House, relinquishing even its right of review, gave the Speaker a prerogative which he continued... | |
 | Indiana. Division of Accounting and Statistics - Indiana - 1918 - 900 pages
...shall have the right to name any member to bear messages to the Senate, and to appoint all committees, unless otherwise specially directed by the House, in which case they shall be appointed by vote. 3. The Speaker shall preserve order and decorum. He may speak to points of order in preference... | |
 | George Rothwell Brown - United States - 1922 - 336 pages
...January 13, 1790, the rules were * Annals of Congress, Volume I, pp. 98 to 102. amended to provide that "all committees shall be appointed by the Speaker,...in which case they shall be appointed by ballot."* It_was from this germ of power that the Speakers of the House developed their domination under a rigid... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - 1922 - 1588 pages
...a person authorized to administer oaths, and be filed with tiie clerk of the House. COMMITTEES. 15. All committees shall be appointed by the speaker unless...directed by the House, in which case they shall be apixnuted by ballot, and a plurality of votes shall prevail. The first-named member of any committee... | |
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All committees shall be appointed by the Speaker, unless otherwise specially directed by the House... 
